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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told religious conservatives Friday that the future of the nation’s economy depends upon immigrants in part because they “are more fertile” and create more businesses than native-born Americans.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is endorsing a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants, a significant move for a favorite of tea party Republicans who are sometimes hostile to such an approach.

It long has been assumed by sociologists that Latinos eventually would be redefined as “white” as they joined the mainstream, but the Census Bureau now wants to classify Latinos as their own distinct group in the next census, in 2020.